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witch's stirrup

witch's stirrup noun: a tangle in a horse's mane.

Noun

witch's stirrup (plural witch's stirrups)

  1. (uncommon) A tangle in a horse's mane.
    • [He may look with] awe on the witch's stirrup in his colt's mane; but on the whole, the belief in witches has passed utterly away.1890, The Baptist Quarterly Review, page 139
    • [They might find its] mane was a tangled mass of witch's stirrups; or perhaps run across the two skeletons that old Aunt Sukey had seen one dark, dreary night while she was passing a graveyard, rise from their graves and engage in a furious encounter with[…]1922, Bruce Haymond, Borderland Echoes: A West Virginia Story, page 162

Forms of witch's stirrup

pluralwitch's stirrups

Questions about witch's stirrup

What does witch's stirrup mean?
Witch's stirrup means a tangle in a horse's mane.
What part of speech is witch's stirrup?
Witch's stirrup is a noun.
What is the plural of witch's stirrup?
The plural of witch's stirrup is witch's stirrups.

Words near witch's stirrup in the dictionary

  1. witch's knot
  2. witch's ladder
  3. witch's ladders
  4. witch's milk
  5. witch's moneybags
  6. witch's stirrup
  7. witch's stirrups
  8. witch's teat
  9. witch's teats
  10. witch's water
  11. witch-ball

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